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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'So ... hungry ...',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2018/10/23.jpg" alt="Leaves changing" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My academic advisor told me I can still apply to graduate the associate program after having left it.
		So I filled out the change of program form, which asked why I wanted to switch in the first place.
		My response:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I&apos;m currently in the associate program for computer science, and my final term is about to end. I&apos;d like to continue my studies in the bachelor program of the same field. My advisor informed me that I&apos;ll still be able to apply to graduate with the associate degree so I can use it for job-hunting in the mean time while working toward the higher degree.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		My advisor told me to let them know when I&apos;d filled out the form and could register for the courses I need.
		My application has to be reviewed and manually approved.
		Last time, they only asked me to let them know when I&apos;d put in the change of program request as if they were planning to get it expedited, so I responded:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Hello <span class="redacted">[REDACTED]</span>,
		</p>
		<p>
			I&apos;ve submitted the change of program request as you&apos;ve asked.
			I&apos;m not yet able to register for the correct courses, but hopefully that&apos;ll be fixed by tomorrow when registration closes.
		</p>
		<p>
			Thank you,<br/>
			~ Lexi
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		It sounds like I won&apos;t be able to graduate with the associate degree until near the end of next term though.
		This is simply because of the scheduling of when they process graduation requests.
	</p>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I saw that the increase was slight, but I hadn&apos;t realised just how small it was when looked at through the lens of the normal distribution.
			Thank you for your insight!
			It looks like the program the politician wants to roll out needs some major work.
			It works a little, but not a while lot.
			That&apos;s assuming their sample is honest though.
			I mean, if the highest increases were chosen to be what the politician showed data for, the scores would have to be going down most of the time instead of up.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="sales">
	<h2>Sales</h2>
	<p>
		A thought occurred to me at work today: the smooth salesperson didn&apos;t have many sales during the computer downtime.
		They were too busy trying to fix the system!
		I assumed they&apos;d continued handling customers with grace while I&apos;d floundered, due to their superior customer service skills.
		This doesn&apos;t match what I&apos;d actually witnessed though.
		Someone else took over their register, and they worked with technical support to resolve the issue.
		Sure, I&apos;m still convinced that they <strong>*would*</strong> have done well on the register, but the fact that they weren&apos;t on the register at the time means that the sales made were not their own.
		I don&apos;t have to feel guilty about costing them those sales.
		In fact, there&apos;s a good chance the sales they would have gotten credit for were less than the sales I&apos;d performed myself.
		I don&apos;t have to forfeit if I win!
	</p>
	<p>
		To be clear, they had a much more important job at the time.
		With the system offline, we weren&apos;t able to take any payments by credit, debit, or gift card.
		We were losing more than half our customers.
		I&apos;d estimate we lost about two thirds of them, actually, and some of the ones that did still order something ordered less due to not having much cash on them.
		By getting the system back online, they brought in more money than any amount of up-selling could do.
		However, that&apos;s not what this contest is about, so I don&apos;t have to feel guilty if I beat them.
	</p>
	<p>
		... That&apos;s a big &quot;if&quot; though.
		Last I knew, I was ahead of them, but I&apos;m pretty sure I&apos;ve had more register shifts than them at this point.
		I have a couple days off from work coming up, and they will easily pass me if they work a register both days.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="fasting">
	<h2>Fasting</h2>
	<p>
		I&apos;m going to try to talk the doctor into re-checking my $a[BMI] and my cholesterol level tomorrow while I&apos;m at my appointment, so I had to stop eating by 21:00.
		I was off work a little after that though, so my last chance to eat was at 19:00, on my last break.
		I made the mistake of not getting food ready for work though.
		I forgot until the last minute that I&apos;d need to start fasting tonight, so I figured I&apos;d just eat when I got home.
		That didn&apos;t work out though.
		I had a few breadsticks on my break, but I was still hungry even as the break ended.
		By the time I was off work, I was ravenous.
		I&apos;ll have to wait until after my appointment to do anything about that though.
	</p>
</section>
END
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